Browsing: hit and run

There are all kinds of petty douchebags in this world, but the ones that irk me the most are those who do the wrong thing even when the right thing is so damn easy. Speeding down a residential block and knocking off a parked car’s mirror? Not the worst thing in the world. Just stop the…

Homecrest resident Danny Lin was arrested on Monday, November 24, after driving away from the scene of a Lower East Side accident in which a pedestrian was struck and killed. Lin, 24, was driving down Bowery between Rivington Street and Prince Street at approximately 6:50pm when he hit Robert Perry, 57. Cops say Lin dashed…

Police have released more details of the September 17 hit-and-run we reported on Tuesday, revealing that the victims were a 2-year-old boy and a 70-year-old woman. According to cops, the two pedestrians were hit while at a bus stop. The car, a blue Infiniti SUV with unknown plates, blasted through a red light at Nostrand…

Police are looking for any information regarding a hit-and-run incident last week at Kings Highway and Nostrand Avenue. Two pedestrians were crossing the street at that intersection on September 17 at approximately 4:15pm when a blue SUV barreled through a red light. After hitting them both, the driver fled the scene. The victims were taken…

A tow truck driver allegedly slammed into five parked cars on Ocean Avenue and Avenue Y before fleeing the scene early Thursday morning, according to CBS News. Police told the outlet that they tracked down the 26-year-old driver, Igor Lyakhovetsky, arresting him with charges of unauthorized use of a vehicle and leaving the scene. Lyakhovetsky allegedly…

Police are searching for Robert Decarlo, a 26-year-old Gravesend resident suspected of being the driver in a hit-and-run yesterday on Flatlands Avenue that left a 12-year-old girl dead and her mother and 9-year-old sister in critical condition. The New York Times reports: Detectives are searching for Robert Decarlo, 26, whom they described as 5 feet…

Police are on the hunt for the driver of the Buick photographed above, with license plate GFR-1370, following a hit-and-run this morning that left a pedestrian in critical condition. The car struck the 60-year-old man in the crosswalk of Ocean Parkway and Avenue O at approximately 11:30 a.m., Yeshiva World News reports. The vehicle fled the…

A married Manhattan woman, looking to collect on her husband’s life insurance policy, plotted to have him killed in Sheepshead Bay by contract killers. The New York Post is reporting that the woman’s scheme ended when it turned out that her conspirators were undercover cops. The woman was identified as Elena Adams, 57, and is…

The proposed installation of speed enforcement cameras across the city has been touted by some legislators and opposed by others, but now there is a chance that a slimmed down version of the plan has a chance of actually happening. Streetsblog is reporting that legislation to install cameras in school zones might have enough support…

The fight over speed enforcement cameras is getting nastier. Last week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg personally called out State Senators Marty Golden, Simcha Felder and Dean Skelos for having blood on their hands in refusing to include funding for speed enforcement cameras in the state budget. In response, Senate Democrats are trying to reinvigorate the effort…